October 2009
My costume tonight:
Madonna in Papa Don’t Preach (1986)
Brave Radar →
brynnachilds: Sometimes it pays to check out the strangers that follow me. This girl’s band is pretty sweet.
cameronr: Cosign.
Thanks guys!
Reuters: U.N. to send Iraqi refugees food aid by... →
“They will be able to exchange their electronic vouchers for rice, wheat flour, lentils, chickpeas, oil and canned fish, as well as cheese and eggs—items that cannot usually be included in conventional aid baskets,” [WFP spokeswoman Emilia Casella] told a Geneva news briefing.
Virtually all the 130,000 Iraqis who now regularly receive WFP food assistance in Syria have mobile phones,...
Because - Postcards (from their self-titled...
“Caught on Tape - Montreal’s Postcards will Play in your Foyer” (Nightlife Magazine, November 2009)
Swine Flu Prevention Tips
Here’s some advice from a Mister Doctor Oz (passed on to me by my mother) on how to minimize your chance of becoming infected with H1N1, ie. swine flu:
The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it’s almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem...
dontdiewonderingmusic:
Brave Radar
What a...
“There is no audience for new ideas. There’s only an audience for ideas...”
– Ian MacKaye on Entitlement
Spacing launches blog for East Coast cities →
I’m a big fan of Spacing Media’s Montreal and Toronto blogs, which cover issues in architecture and urban planning for each city (I’ve reposted tons of their stories over the years). I just found out that they’ve recently launched an East Coast edition that will focus on stories in Halifax, St. John’s, Charlottetown, Miramichi, Fredericton, Sydney, and Saint John. If you...
For some of my friends who are overly concerned... →
…this article points out that rather than being based on any longstanding tradition, the “traditional age of marriage” (ie. in one’s late teens/early 20s) can, in fact, be traced directly to the 1950s, which was an anomalous period of American history in terms of that sort of thing.
Jollimore and the Valley
Photos by Conor P.
“Writers fail us when that interface is tailored to our needs, when it panders to...”
– Zadie Smith’s essay, Fail Better (via meaghano)
We were up late Tuesday night making download cardsleeves for the Worn Journal Issue 9 gift bags, which they’ll be giving away to the first 30 people at their launch party on Oct 31st.
Since we’re working on a new album with Postcards right now to be released over the winter (and because we love Worn Journal and its readers), we decided to make Postcards’ first album, their...
Polaroid Lives! | GOOD →
(via hydeordie, noahkalina)
Ok, first of all YAWN. As if anyone saw them discontinuing Polaroid film and then watched its popularity mirror its rarity for a new generation of analog fetishists (see: Poladroid) and thought, “Boy, it’s really a shame they’ll never make Polaroid film again because now there’s this huge market and it just keeps growing the longer it’s...
CKUT did a label profile on us last week for the...
“We should post some pictures”
– me just now, in total seriousness, in reference to the fact that our apartment lacks wall hangings.
THE INTERNET: it hath changed me.
Puces Pop Record Sale at the Ukranian Federation
Fucking epic rooftop preacher photo of Dirty Beaches by Caley Jones at Friendship Cove this weekend, his last show in Montreal before he moves to Vancouver. I’m going to miss him so much.
His blog. His music.
More tour
» from gabe’s disposable camera
WatchFootage of the twisting from John’s birthday. Damn, my friends party hard.
WatchThe winning collection from Wednesday’s Puces Pop Emerging Designers Fashion Show: Angie Johnson’s Norwegian Wood (with a cameo by a certain boy-haired blonde).